"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture / William H. Jordy ; edited and with an introduction by Mardges Bacon for the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordy, William H.

Contributor:

Bacon, Mardges.

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture.

United States.

History.

Art, American--20th century.

Art, American.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]

Contents:

Part I. American history and visual culture. Two temperaments in history: scientific and literary (1951)

American architecture between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983)

Four approaches to regionalism in the visual arts of the 1930s (1977)

The Tennessee Valley Authority: lessons for the present and future (1993)

Fiasco at Willow Run (1943)

Part II. The arc of European modernism. The symbolic essence of modern European architecture of the twenties and its continuing influence (1963)

The international style in the 1930s (1965)

<"I am alone": Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes (1983)

William Lescaze reconsidered (1984)

The aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968)

Part III. The historian as critic: formal perspectives on American architecture after 1945. Seagram assessed (1958)

Medical research building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961)

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974)

Robert Venturi and the decorated shed (1985)

Bank of China tower (1991).

Notes:

"A Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-302) and index.

ISBN:

0300094493

0300094485

OCLC:

55730041